MATRIXSYNTH

Akai Professional Fire Demo (no talking)

Published on Oct 10, 2018 Bonedo Synthesizers

"In this video we demonstrate the new AKAI Fire DAW Controller for FL Studio 20!"

New Novation SL MkIII Keyboard Controllers w/ Eight-Track Polyphonic Sequencing & CV/Gate

Published on Oct 10, 2018

Playlist:
Novation // SL MkIII Overview - NovationTV
Novation // SL MkIII - Performance - NovationTV
Novation // SL MkIII & Ableton Overview - NovationTV
Novation // SL MkIII & Hardware Overview - NovationTV
Novation // SL MKIII - Deep Dive - NovationTV
Novation SL MkIII Sequencer & MIDI keyboard - How good is it for synthesizer setups? - BoBeats
Exclusive: Novation SL MKIII MIDI Controller - Presentation - Sonicstate
Novation SL MkIII Review: Is it a gamechanging controller? (49SL MK3/61SL MK3) - loopop
Novation SL MkIII with Eurorack Modular Synths // Sequencer, keyboard & controller - DivKidVideo
Novation SL MkIII Controller Overview - Sound On Sound magazine

"MIDI and CV-equipped keyboard controller with eight-track sequencer

Novation today announces the next generation of SL keyboard controllers. SL MkIII is far from your typical keyboard controller. It’s an all sequencing, all dancing hub for all of your music-making tools. A centrepiece to connect, control and create with your entire setup. Computer or not. Create quickly and easily with your MIDI hardware and CV/Gate synths. Build your tracks in the eight-track polyphonic sequencer: everything in time; everything in key; every control at your fingertips.

Novation worked with Ableton® to create an unprecedented integration with Live™. SL MkIII truly pulls your sessions out of the box. The full colour LCD screens give you full visibility of your parameters, while the pads, buttons, eight faders and eight knobs get you hands-on with your music – and in any major music software, using InControl. Deep integrations with Logic® and Reason – plus HUI compatibility with Cubase, Pro Tools® and Reason – mean SL MkIII can follow you away from Ableton®, too.

SL MkIII boasts Novation's finest, most playable and expressive synth-style semi-weighted keybed, with a sprung action and Novation's highest scan rate, all tuned to the needs of the experienced player.

Key features

Absolute hardware control, taking total control directly from the internal eight-track polyphonic pattern-based sequencer

Easy integration with Ableton® Live™ or any other HUI-compatible DAW. Controlling software is made easy by recording productions from a studio centrepiece

Whether in the box or outside the box, the MIDI and analogue clock and transport controls keep everything running in time

Highly customisable mappings for hardware and software easily control everything

USB; MIDI In, Out, Out 2/Thru; three pedal inputs; Analogue Clock Out; and two CV Pitch, Gate, and Mod outputs can be used to route anything anywhere

SL MkIII's pads, buttons, eight faders and eight knobs take control of all major music software using InControl

The SL MkIII has an exceptionally high scan rate of 10kHz, giving the keyboard a huge dynamic range for expressive keyboard performance

SL MkIII's velocity-sensitive RGB pads have multiple functions: they can be used for launching clips, as steps in the sequencer, they are perfect for the finger drummer, and have polyphonic aftertouch

Components allows templates and sessions to be backed up and restored in the cloud, enabling access from anywhere in the world. All content can also be saved locally"

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Oberheim Etude #1: "Marathon Man"

Published on Oct 10, 2018 Kris Lennox

"Straight-up, in-your-face synth hero in this piece. Full-on 80's mode. :)

Something of a LH stamina-fest! Yes, quite the marathon.

Presently I'm preparing the scores for review. What I'm creating for each piece is introductory text/explanation of the musical/technical points, plus the score - and I'm hoping to also have a 'player-friendly' version of each score i.e. all note names added to help those who may struggle with notated music. Very involved, but hopefully worth it.

Given there is no developed repertoire for the synth (I mean as in sheet music i.e. a quantifiable recorded form of the music that can be passed from player-player), it is difficult to say what a 'good' synth player is, as there is no established technical yardstick. With these etudes I'm covering the technical/musical difficulties encountered in synth writing (which isn't necessarily 'play fast'), and sometimes pushing those difficulties slightly further (you likely won't encounter an octave bassline with the jumps/constant nature as of this work - but if you can play a work such as this, 'typical' synth bassline writing is, relatively speaking, easy).

The end result is: if someone can play all 12, they'll have the ability to play almost anything/everything written for synth.

Guaranteed gigs/session work :)

The works are also good for pinpointing any weaknesses in playing. And hopefully also enjoyable as audio! No point writing music that sounds terrible!

The works aren't written necessarily to be played on an Oberheim - they can be performed on any 49-key synth. Even a MIDI controller/soft synth is fine. Personally, I'd love to hear what other players would do with them, in terms of patch/overall tone.

I'm also working on a set of monophonic works. I'll post one soon.

It would be nice for the audio for both sets to be available as an album/digital download. Let's see how things unfold.

All best
Kris"

New Commodore 64 Chiptune Music & Music Maker Project by Perifractic's Retro Recipes

New Commodore 64 Chiptune Music Video 🎧 "The Lost Years (feat. C64)" | ©1997-2018 Perifractic Published on Oct 1, 2018

More info & tunes: http://euromantix.com

"🍟 ON TODAY'S MENU: Marvel as I channel my inner Ross Geller in this music video as I go back to my roots again with another brand new original chiptune, recorded on the Commodore Music Maker Station built in a past video. Every note you hear was recorded on my Commodore 64 (only some echo & percussion added) straight out of the SID chip, using CynthCart, and GarageBand on the other end. This is in line to be my Q4 Theme Tune. Let me know what you think!

© DMCA Copyright Notice: "The Lost Years (feat. C64)" aka "What Do You Want" Registered International Copyright ©1997-2018 CJ Simpson aka Perifractic / euromantix music / TuneCore Music Publishing Administration / Atlantic Screen Group. Unauthorized distribution prohibited. All rights reserved. PRS-MCPS registered."

Commodore Music Maker Project - The C=MM² red

"My project to turn Commodore Music Maker into the CMM Station - a sexy music workstation inspired by Fairlight"

Playlist:
1/6: Commodore Music Maker Refurb - The Beginning
2/6: Commodore Music Maker Refurb - Recording An Original Hit Song
3/6: Commodore Music Maker Refurb - The Music Station
4/6: Commodore Music Maker Refurb - Shattered Case Repair
5/6: Commodore Music Maker Refurb - Darth Vader Case | feat. Retro Man Cave
6/6: Commodore Music Maker Refurb - Hammer Repair & Big Finish!
And the video above.

Chill Trap Demo (Trap Sample Pack) Trap Kits

Published on Oct 10, 2018 New Loops

https://newloops.com/products/chill-trap

"New Loops presents Chill Trap - a musical collection of urban sounds for producers of Trap, Future Bass, Hip Hop and other urban styles. Chill Trap features 5 full construction kits with over 580 MB of audio loops, one shot sounds and midi files. You’ll find drums, bass, vocals, melodies, sound effects, multi-samples and more."

West Coast Road Trip! ... an experimental Snazzy FX music Travelogue #TTNM

Published on Oct 10, 2018 The Tuesday Night Machines

"Put on your headphones, clear 20 minutes of your time and join me on a road trip down the United States' West Coast, from Seattle to Los Angeles, listening to dictaphone travel commentary and interludes of experimental modular synthesizer music, played on a Snazzy FX Eurorack system. MORE INFO BELOW :)

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PixelNoises Synth T-Shirts by The Tuesday Night Machines:
EU: https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/pixelnoises/
US: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/pixelnoises/

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Audio gear used:
- an old Sony cassette dictaphone
- Zoom R16 audio recorder
- Snazzy FX Eurorack modular synthesizer with Tidal Wave, Kick Me, Eternal Spring, Hi Gain, 2x Kitty Eyes, Dronebank, Chaos Brother, Dreamboat, Dual Multiplier, Wow and Flutter, Telephone Game, etc.
... as shown in this thread:
https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=193591&highlight=
... Snazzy FX website: http://snazzyfx.com/

Filmed with a GoPro Hero 4 Silver."

TEST SERIES Noise Engineering Loquelic Iteritas Mid-Fi Pitch Pirate Clari(not) Glitch Computer

Published on Oct 10, 2018 Outsider Sound Design

"Noise Engineering Loquelic Iteritas with Mid-Fi Electronics Pitch Pirate, Clari(not), Glitch Computer.
The purpose of 'TEST SERIES' is to focus on the sound design possibilities of various gear combinations. This series is not musical nor does it serve as an instructional video. It is all about sound potential.
Please consider supporting this channel by purchasing a sample pack or music download from www.outsidersounddesign.com"

Waldorf Quantum : a perfect drone machine? demo live talking #02

Published on Oct 10, 2018 CO5MA

"Custom made preset: Nakedo

4 oscillators (layered): 2 Granular, 1 Waveform and 1 Resonator
No external effects

This is a live improvisation and not a recorded sequence."

Qu-Bit Scanned - Organic Wavetable Oscillator Eurorack Module Now Shipping

Published on Oct 10, 2018 Qu - Bit

"Scanned is an organic wavetable oscillator. It uses an unexplored technique known as Scanned Synthesis to animate wavetables that are created in real-time. This synthesis method was conceived by the father of computer music, Max Matthews, as the next paradigm in digital oscillators, and until now, has never been implemented on hardware.

The wavetables are dynamically generated from a set of "objects" tied together on a virtual string. These objects have physical properties including Mass, Stiffness, and Damping which affect the way that the string moves through space and time. Unlike physical modeling, however, this algorithm is a means of creating new electronic sounds, not replicating acoustic instruments. To animate the waveform, the objects are morphed into the currently selected hammer shape and then released. This excitation of the sound generates evolving timbral landscapes that contain harmonic movement without external modulation. The hammer section also determines whether Scanned is a free-running oscillator, or a triggered sound source allowing it to function as a complete voice without additional filters or VCAs.

- First hardware implementation of Scanned Synthesis
- Organic wavetable generation and animations
- Can be a free-running oscillator or triggered voice
- Inject input allows external audio or CV sources to excite the string
- Evolving timbral landscapes without external modulation
- Four hammer shapes with interpolation
- Aluminum front panel"